Overview
Fundamentals
Introduction
Seismic waves: Propagation Velocity and Amplitudes
Seismogram
Measurement systems
Sources, receivers, Acquisition strategies
Data processing
“Pre-processing”
Filter und Deconvolution
Velocity analysis and Stacking
Migration
Interpretation
Basic scheme of the seismic data processing
Loading of the data/conversion
Demultiplexing
Geometry
Measurements
Navigation
Pre-Processing
Editing
Amplitude correction
Frequency filter
Deconvolution
CMP-Sorting
Prestack
Velocity analysis
NMO-Correction
Stacking
Migration
Poststack
Post-processing
Printing/storage
Printing/storage
Frequency analysis
• Analysis of the frequency content of the
data
• Difference in frequency content for
interface waves, Noise and Reflections
• In what frequency range are the reflections
present ?
Outline
• Periodic and transient waveforms
• Fourier transformation
time domain <-> frequency domain
• Frequency filters
• Tapering
• Field examples
Frequency content of a shot
high freq.
noise:
low freq.
ground-roll
Waves
Amplitude
Phase φ
Acos(2πft)
Acos(2πft-φ)
t
1
Period τ ==--f
Period τ
Wavelength λ=τ∗v
2π
Wavenumber k = --λ
Velocity v
=
f⋅λ
2π
-----ω
Periodic and transient waveforms
Periodic waveform
Transient waveform
Periodic waveforms
• Any periodic waveform, may be
decomposed into a series of sine (or cosine)
waves whose frequencies are integer
multiples of the basic repetition frequency
• It is necessary to define not only the
frequency of each component, but also its
amplitude and phase
Fourier transformation
Fourier Transformation:
∞
G( f ) =
−i 2 πft
(
)
g
t
e
dt
∫
−∞
G( f ) =
∞
∞
−∞
−∞
∫ g (t )cos(2πft )dt − i ∫ g (t )sin(2πft )dt
∞
Inverse Fourier
Transformation:
g (t ) = ∫ G ( f )e i 2πft df
−∞
∞
∞
−∞
−∞
g (t ) = ∫ G ( f ) cos(2πft )df + i ∫ G ( f )sin( 2πft )df
Summation of different frequencies
Fourier transformation
g(t)
A(f)
Amplitude-Spectrum
φ(f)
Phase-Spectrum
G(f) = A(f) e iφ(f)
where A(f)={[Real part of G(f)]2+[Imaginary part of G(f)]2}1/2
Φ (f)=tan-1
(
imaginary part of G(f)
real part of G(f)]
)
A(f)
Imaginary part
Φ (f)
Real part
• frequency
• amplitude
• phase
f1
f2
Sum:
f1
f2
Sum:
f1
f1
f2
f2
Sum:
Sum:
Digital representation of continuous amplitude and phase spectrum
associated with a transient waveform
Spike function
DC bias
Transient waveforms
approximating
seismic pulses
Frequency filter
Low Pass
High Pass
f
f
Notch filter
Band Pass
f
f
Tapering
Tapering of filters
• Butterworth
• Hanning
• Ormsby
Amplitude and phase characteristics.
Band-pass filtered raw field records
Corrected for geometric spreading: frequency absorption remains